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The neural pathways that process the sensations of smell, taste, and viscerosensation are, at least initially, anatomically separate from one another. Nevertheless, each of these three senses ultimately provides essential data to the skeletomotor and visceromotor systems that main- tain the internal environment (survival of the individual) and control reproduction (perpetuation of the species). In fact, the three usually work in concert to guide the acquisition of metabolic fuels as well as successful mating behavior.
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Beckstead, R.M. (1996). Smell, Taste, and Viscerosensation. In: A Survey of Medical Neuroscience. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-8570-5_21
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